Since Kirk is on the show perhaps we can get more backstory on the Tarsus IV incident...
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As a reoccurring character? Kirk doesn’t mean lead. Superman guest starred on Supergirl.
I agree that we already have enough legacy characters in SNW... Pike, Una, Spock, Chapel, Uhura, Sam Kirk, and M'Benga.
Pike has had a few established before DISCO, but he had room for a lot more development, particularly since Anson Mount has done such a supreme job with the character.
Spock already had far more stuff established about him than any of the others, and the only real reason he is here is because he's established as having served under Pike for over a decade. This does present the problem of stepping on many lore minefields.
Chapel and Uhura only had bits and pieces of their previous history established, so there is room to do a lot of stuff.
Even more so with Una and M'Benga, and I love both characters greatly.
Sam Kirk... we know his final fate, but not much else.
Adding Kirk to the mix... I honestly don't like that idea. It seems overkill in nostalgia realm. I love SNW more than any other current series, but this is one thing I am feeling very iffy about.
Having said that, SNW has managed to handle their legacy characters pretty well. I just hope they don't make Kirk too much like the movie version where he tosses the rulebook out a lot and more in line with how he has been established in his earlier career. (I don't like that Sam Kirk referred to Jim as more like the movie version.)
Pike has had a few established before DISCO, but he had room for a lot more development, particularly since Anson Mount has done such a supreme job with the character.
Spock already had far more stuff established about him than any of the others, and the only real reason he is here is because he's established as having served under Pike for over a decade. This does present the problem of stepping on many lore minefields.
Chapel and Uhura only had bits and pieces of their previous history established, so there is room to do a lot of stuff.
Even more so with Una and M'Benga, and I love both characters greatly.
Sam Kirk... we know his final fate, but not much else.
Adding Kirk to the mix... I honestly don't like that idea. It seems overkill in nostalgia realm. I love SNW more than any other current series, but this is one thing I am feeling very iffy about.
Having said that, SNW has managed to handle their legacy characters pretty well. I just hope they don't make Kirk too much like the movie version where he tosses the rulebook out a lot and more in line with how he has been established in his earlier career. (I don't like that Sam Kirk referred to Jim as more like the movie version.)
According to the showrunners, Mount is nit done. So, to me, they are just getting Kirk out there so people stop asking "where's Kirk?" Time will tell if they keep Pike.
Making Kirk more of a thing in the series just leaves me iffy. I don't see why it needs to be done when there's plenty to do with the characters we already have.
I thoroughly enjoy that episode. On my watch list when I feel like revisiting TOS. Unfortunately, it did marry Star Trek to Shakespeare in a very "'til death to they part" type of a way.
Kirk on SNW was inevitable just as Spock was on DISCO.
Because without Kirk, you wouldn't have Star Trek.
Or lmao, as inevitable as Pike and Spock on Disco. Or as inevitable as all of the TOS characters we have on SNW.
People complaining about one of two reasons Star Trek was ever a success are hilarious. Sorry about your weird anti-Kirk agenda, but he has more of a right to be on that show than anyone other than Spock.
This shows a fundamental misunderstanding to people's objections to having Kirk on SNW.
It's a good ep. I enjoyed the rewatch. Been finally getting around to watching all the eps on blu ray. Arnold Moss did an excellent job in the episode.
It's a prequel. I expect the show to do prequel stuff. And that means Kirk and more. I'm excited about it. I like to see the pieces fit together while creating new characters to continue on. It's a balance.
I prefer Pike.
I think I do too.
Pike over Kirk, period. Always have, always will.
Yes. To me, anyway.
Since SNW is in fact supposed to be a Pike series? Hell yeah.
You want Kirk, give him his own damn show.
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